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Apache Cassandra® 4.1: Discover What’s New
Apache Cassandra® 4.1 is bringing some seriously useful new features to the table! First up: the new Guardrails framework is specifically designed to help operators avoid configuration and usage pitfalls that could potentially degrade the performance and availability of their clusters. This is a big deal, as it means that you will have more control...
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December 21, 2022 -
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A Beginner’s Guide to Kafka® Consumers
Our explanation of what Kafka Consumers are, what they do, how to configure a Kafka Consumer Group as well as other key Kafka offset topics
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Instaclustr Announces the Release of Shotover
Shotover is a layer 7 database proxy built to allow developers, admins, DBAs, and operators to modify in-flight database requests. Currently, Shotover has been used to implement multi-region active-active capability and cluster-aware routing for Redis for non-cluster aware drivers.
Learn MoreBen BromheadNovember 08, 2021 -
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Changes to Elasticsearch™ Licensing
Yesterday, Elastic announced they would moving their “Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License” (read their full announcement here). This change means that components of Elasticsearch or Kibana in subsequent versions (7.11 and onwards) are no longer under an OSI-approved...
Learn MoreBen BromheadJanuary 15, 2021 -
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Apache Cassandra 4.0 Beta Released
The beta release of Apache Cassandra 4.0 is finally here, it’s been two years in the making. We’ve had a preview release available to customers since March for testing. A wide range of improvements has been made.
Learn MoreBen BromheadJuly 21, 2020 -
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Apache Cassandra 4.0 – Audit
Apache Cassandra 4.0 brings about a long awaited feature for tracking and logging database user activity. Primarily aimed at providing a robust set of audit capabilities allowing operators of Cassandra to meet external compliance obligations, it brings yet another enterprise feature into the database. Combining work for the full query log capability, the audit log...
Learn MoreBen BromheadMarch 10, 2020 -
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Purity and Practicality: True Open Source Has Earned Its Trusted Place in Today’s Enterprise
Enterprises are now overloaded with choice when it comes to the breadth of their technology stack possibilities. One of the most important is deciding whether to move forward with open source or proprietary solutions (whether deployed in the cloud or or-prem). It’s a critical decision shaping the immediate and long-term future of any business’ technology...
Learn MoreBen BromheadMarch 08, 2020 -
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Apache Cassandra 4.0 – Netty Transport
In this series of blog posts, we’ll take a meandering tour of some of the important changes, cool features, and nice ergonomics that are coming with Apache Cassandra 4.0. In part 1 we focussed on Cassandra 4.0 stability and testing, and Part 2 around virtual tables. In this part we will learn about Netty Transport Framework
Learn MoreBen BromheadFebruary 14, 2020 -
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Apache Cassandra 4.0 – Virtual Tables
The last major version release of Apache Cassandra was 3.11.0 and that was more than 2 years ago in 2017. So what has the Cassandra developer community been doing over the last 2 years? Well let me tell you, it’s good real good. It’s Apache Cassandra 4.0! It’s also close, and with the release of the first alpha version, we now have a pretty solid idea of the features and capabilities that will be included in the final release.
Learn MoreBen BromheadFebruary 04, 2020
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